Frailty and cardiac rehabilitation: A call to action from the EAPC Cardiac Rehabilitation Section

Cardiac rehabilitation: call to action for healthcare providers.

Secondary prevention through cardiac rehabilitation: from knowledge to implementation. A position paper from the Cardiac Rehabilitation Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.

Increasing awareness of the importance of cardiovascular prevention is not yet matched by the resources and actions within health care systems. Recent publication of the European Commission's European Heart Health Charter in 2008 prompts a review of the role of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) to cardiovascular health outcomes. Secondary prevention through exercise-based CR is the intervention with ...

Regenerative rehabilitation: a call to action.

We have battled against disease since the beginning of time. As science and technology have evolved, so have the weapons in our antidisease arsenal improved. Indeed, in the last 50 years, the sheer volume of knowledge about human biology has doubled every 8 years. This means that the foundation on which the design and delivery of healthcare is built is 1,000 times stronger at the end of our liv...

The Response of Hematological Factors to Home-Based Exercise Rehabilitation and Center-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation in Coronary Artery Disease

Background: Hematological disorders such as increased white blood cells and platelets (elevated white blood cell and platelets) in coronary heart disease (CHD) are associated with increased mortality. Exercise could specifically influence hematologic factors. The purpose of this study was to survey the response of hematological factors to home-based exercise rehabilitation and center-based card...

Cardiac rehabilitation.

Exercise training is a major, and the most important, component of cardiac rehabilitation. Besides providing psychological benefits and promoting a "sense of well being," it elicits a number of adaptations in patients with ischemic heart disease. Among the clinically important adaptations are changes in the trained skeletal muscles and autonomic nervous system, resulting not only in increased m...